નાદ લાગ્યો તે ભવનું ભાગ્યું.

nāda lāgyō tē bhavanuṁ bhāgyuṁ.

Literally: Becoming addicted ruins a whole life.
What it means: Fixating compulsively on a vice or obsession destroys one's prospects and life completely.

ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1921) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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